DIRECTOR Andreas Weber
40 years ago Hermann Gail gave up on life following heavy debts and a suicide attempt – but after serving a 12 year prison term he won it back through an unconditional engagement with literature.

Directed by: Karina Ressler
This is how secure our society seems to appear: fear of unemployment, illness, criminality, environmental destruction, fear of foreigners or pure existential fear marks the everyday life of modern man.

DIRECTOR Robert Adrian Pejo
Joe Coleman is a very broad subject. He is an artist whose media range from Shock Art to bloody performance, from underground comics to sermons from the pulpit and punk shows.

DIRECTOR Amos Kollek
“My father led an extremely rich and exciting life. An international life. His life represented the history of his time. There is possibly no one any more with such a life behind them.” (Amos Kollek-Director)

Directed by: Sabine Derflinger / Bernhard Poetscher
A film about deportees and the field of conflict between their destinies, the efforts of the refugee advisors, the problems of the officials concerned and the worries of the local population.

Directed by: Othmar Schmiderer
On the one hand, AT THE MOUNTAIN searches for the lost myths, the wonderful and notorious places of the spirit on Dachstein and on the other hand delves into the real world of a high alpine meadow there and the people who work on it.

Directed by: Egon Humer
The story of an expulsion, told by twelve former Austrian Jews, who fled to New York in the time between 1938 and 1940. A story of the loss of identity and about the hardship of finding oneself once more between two worlds.

Movie details 82min Directed by: Robert Adrian Pejo Story line A filmic taboo-breaker which attempts to retrieve the aged body and death from their collective purdah, where we have exiled them from modern society, back into consciousness and to comprehend them as part of our life.

Directed by: Reinhard Jud
“KAMENI GRAD – City of Stone” is an authentic “teen film” full of charm and tempo where the colourful atmosphere in which the adolescents begin to free themselves from childhood plays a major role.

Directed by: Egon Humer
Vienna, 1993: The Viennese music scene is more varied than ever before. There is a flood of concerts, the gigs are sold out, some musicians achieve success abroad. From Techno to Death Metal, from Hard Core to Pop Rock – the scene opens up. The film has a simple structure: The City – The Song – The Performance. No distance – the stage as arena – in the foreground of the creative act.

DIRECTOR Alisa Douer
A documentary about three people of Jewish origin who were able to survive the Nazi regime in Austria as “U-Boats”. A film about solidarity, humanity and the selfless aid of a few in an omnipresent system of injustice and inhumanity.

DIRECTOR Egon Humer
In 1991, 108 major catastrophes occurred, with 156.916 casualties and almost 11 billion dollars insurance less. Almost two thirds of all damages were not of natural origin, but directly caused by humans. Risk-experts talk about the dangers of modern society.

DIRECTOR Alisa Douer
Six Austrian-born authors who were compelled to flee from the Nazis return to Vienna. Surrounded by the scenes of their youth, they talk about childhood, expulsion and flight. The relationship with their country of origin remains ambivalent – the fear of renewed hostility and anti-semitism cannot be overcome.